The Playing-Card (from 1995)

See also the consolidated alphabetical index of articles.

Notes:

• From here onwards The Playing-Card and Playing-Card World were combined and issued as The Playing-Card six times a year.
• From 2014 onwards The Playing-Card is issued four times a year.

Vol. XXIV (1995 – 96)

1. Sigmundt Beck’s Playing-Cards in the Czech National Museum; Casino from Nowhere to Vaguely Everywhere; Giocatori di Carte in Inediti Affreschi Lombardi del ‘400
2.  Le Coucou en France; IPCS London Convention; Portrait de Paris after World War II; Laurence Alt (obituary)
3. Brag in Literature and Life 1; Italian-suited Cards: The Trentine Pattern; The Swedish Connection of the Spielkartenfabrik von C. L. Wüst 1811 – 1927; Los Naipes de Cadiz (review)
4.  Brag in Literature and Life 2; Kultur und Kunstgeschichte der Spielkarte (review); Liuk Fu, Cháng Pái and Other East Asian Trick-Taking Games; Playing-Cards as Lining for Drawers
5. Playing-Cards in Lucca; The Playing-Card Workshops of Sawantwadi; Bombay or Vienna?; Should we perpetuate errors?; Playing-Cards Made by Johann Ziser, Prague
6. Two Spanish Designs Adapted for French Use; “Troeven”: the Simplest Game of Trumps; The Last Days of Indian Playing-Cards?; The History of the Spielkartenfabrik von Georg Martin Neumann; 66-Card Tarock in the Tyrol; Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses (review); The Storage and Display of Playing-Cards

Vol. XXV (1996 – 97)

1. Russian Card Games and Their Literature; Stukeley-Type Playing-Cards in Prague; The Manuscript of Johannes; “Beautiful Bath” pack by Karl Gerich; I Tarocchi Siciliani (review); The Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 1; Games of Eleusis, Crowley and Maze
2. Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 2; The Playing-Card Factory of C. L. Wüst: a Chronology; Games of Styrivolt, Vorms and Cicera; (more on) Stukeley Cards in the Prague Museum; Tarocke (review); Schach und Karten – und Schachkarten
3. Report on Convention at Kecskemét; The Later Pattern for Sicilian Tarots; Report of first Norwegian Playing-Card Society Meeting; Note sur les “cartes debassette”; Games of Shoot Pontoon and Don; Naqsh in the Nineteenth Century; The “Curse of Scotland”?
4. Documents on Playing-Cards in Piedmont, part 1; Il Castro di Issogne; “Climbing” Games; Two Ten Seven Character Cards in Hsian; Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 3
5. Documents on Playing-Cards in Piedmont, part 2; First Reference to Jass; Games of Cotecchio and Trappola; Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 4; The Wooden Playing-Cards of the Mongols; The Playing-Cards of Spain (review); Minor British Playing-Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 (review); Playing-Cards in Urbino – a Discovery
6. La Virtú in Giocco 1; Le Livre Belote, Histoire du Bridge, Kartenspiele in Familien – und Freundeskreis, Doppelkopf, Ujabb 21 kártyajátek és még 12 pasziánsz (reviews); (yet more on) Stukeley Cards in the Prague Museum; A Wicked Pack of Cards (review); Minor British Playing-Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century Volume 2 (review); Counties of England (review); Erneute Betrachtungen zu einem erloschenen Standardbild mit deutschen Farben; The Conception of Ancestors to Tarot Games

Vol. XXVI (1997 – 98)

1. The Game of Three Chrysanthemums; Preference in Russia; Le Portrait d’Aluette Tramezal et Marais; Games: Partners, Allies and Looking for Friends; La Virtú in Giocco 2
2. Orpelli e Naipi; A Greenlandic Descendant of Karnöffel; Game of Trappola; Bhavnagar State Historical Cards; La Virtú in Giocco 3
3. Card Playing and Playing-Cards; Es mus es algo más, Perfectionez seul votre tarot, Kortspelshandboken, Das grosse Buch der Kartenspiele, Schweizer Jass-führer, Forty Fives, Juegos de cartas, Szórakoztató kártyajátékok kézikönyve (reviews); Report on Convention in Trieste and Venice; Bolognese Tarocchino: “Sequenza” Cards; Wüst’s Swiss Connections; Some notes on the Bhavnagar Cards; Storing and Displaying Playing-Cards; Albanian Card Games: a Recent Tradition
4. Norskeforening for Spillkortsamlere; Beating Off the Attack; The Trumps on the Casa Rella Frescoes; Twenty Years of Cartophilia Helvetica; Die Kartenmacherfamilie Backofen in Nürnberg, The Art of Tarot (reviews); Profile of Han Janssen; News from Altenburg
5. The “Very Costly Game” of Zwicken; Playing the Game: Playing with numbers; The Regensburg pattern; New Issues; IPCS Millennium Project; Pattern Sheet Editor; A Short History of Playing-Cards in the United States; Letter to the Editor (T. Denning); Visit to a new UK Playing-Card Maker
6. Editorial; Millennium Deck; Society News; From the Secretary’s Desk; Miscellany (Blocks used to print card hands, Playing-card electronic mailing list, Frequently Asked Questions); Book Reviews (A Magyar Kártya/Die Ungarishce Karte), Auctions and Lists; Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: Notes on fishing; New Issues; Other Issues; Ein Netzwerk von Bildern; Stýrivoltur, the Karnöffel of the Faroes, part 1; The Game of Faro

Vol. XXVII (1998 – 99)

1. Editorial and result of Modiano Prize 1998; Talon/BDK Meeting 1998; Ravensburger Games takes over Berliner Spielkarten; Notes and Queries (Playing cards to keep fit, Internet news, Names of English court card patterns, Happy Families, Early British playing-cards); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, Volume 12: Makers of Playing Cards’ company 1675 – 1760, Saddlers’ Company 1657 – 1666, Tobacco Pipemakers’ Company 1800, Tarrokk Album, Games We Play. History of J.W. Spear & Sons, Minor British Playing Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 4. James English & Compnay; Peerless Card Company); Playing the Game: Black kings in Greenland and Black Maria in Finland; New Issues; An Unusual Hindu pack of cards; ; Stýrivoltur, the Karnöffel of the Faroes, part 2
2. George Beal: an Appreciation; Letter to the Editor (R. Lancaster); Notes and Queries (Internet News, New Cards for Old, Casino Telephone Card, Name of the Game in Chinese, Frequently Asked Questions); Book Reviews (“Welli & Co” Spielkarten aus Alt-Tirol 1750 – 1900. Sonderheft zu Talon No. 7, Tarot Cards and the Millennium – the Story of Who’s on the Cards and Why); Playing the Game: Cards in Russian prisons; New Issues; A pack not made by Hunt; In Search of Tarot Sources: part 1; A visit to Sawantwadi
3. Editorial; Rendez-vous at Issy, 23 – 25 October; Klaus Reisinger’s response to receiving the Modiano Prize 1998; Notes and Queries (Internet news, Plea for information, Second-hand Cards, Exhibition of “Seducing Cards” at Turnhout); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Kártyafestõk Magyarországon / Kartenmaler in Ungarn / Card Makers in Ungarn, Igorny Dom [The Gambling House], New Playing Card Figures by Academic Sharleman, I Giochi di Carta / Card Games, Playing cards & Card Games on British Cigarette Cards – a Checklist and Anglo-American Playing Cards on Overseas Cigarette Cards – a Checklist (provisional)); Playing the Game: Recent books; Playing-Card Ephemera; New Issues; Bubble Cards and Prints; In Search of Tarot Sources: part 2
4. Address from our President; Notes and Queries (Staff to leaf transformation in English cards, The American Game Collectors’ Association, Royal Geographical Whist, Further notes on the playing-cards of Sawantwadi, Internet news, Casino playing-cards, Michael Dummett, Vanity Fair); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: Zwickern; New Issues; William Montagu’s Geographical Pack of 1793; Huchot and other card game illustrators; Perilous times of 19th century playing-card makers in London; La prima edizione di Chitarrella
5. Editorial; IPCS convention 24 – 26 September Wroclaw; The index on-line; Notes and Queries (Standcraft Janus pack, Black Cat cigarette playing-cards, Thackeray’s connections with cards, Rudolf von Leyden, Ganjifa exhibition, Leicester, De La Rue’s early Ace of spades, Miniature cards, Quartet CD-ROM, Society news, Dates in 18th century England and “Bubble Cards”); Book Reviews (British Patents, Design of and Games with Playing-Cards); Playing the Game: Quitlok; Number symbolism and the tarot trumps; Playing cards in Bermuda; New Issues; Los Impuestos Sobre los Naipes en los Reinos de España, entraga 1; The ‘Nine Worthies’ and French cards
6. Editorial; Notes and Queries (German area representative, Belgian mystery pack, AG Müller now owned by Carta Mundi, Turnhout museum closes for refurbishment, Questions for the 3rd millennium, part 1, “Cries and Humours of London” completed, …and now wash your hands, Internet news, Exhibition at Albemarle Gallery, London); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: king-ten-five or ace-ten-five; New Issues; SK329858; “MADE FROM PW” – ein handgemachtes Internationales Bild; Los Impuestos Sobre los Naipes en los Reinos de España, entraga 2; Stubai Valley Droggn and Dobbm – two living fossils of the Austrian card game landscape, part I

Vol. XXVIII (1999 – 2000)

1. Editorial; BDK/Talon meeting in Goslar; Letters to the Editor (W. Suma, J. Taylor, T. Denning); Notes and Queries (Belgian mystery pack, Early editions of Waite/Colman Smith’s tarot deck, Accolade for Issy-les-Moulineaux museum, Tarot exhibition at Turnhout, L’ACCART strikes back, More on second-hand cards, Questions for the 3rd millennium, part 2, Internet news); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Cartiers Parisiens du XIXe Siècle, The catalogue of Happy Family Games. Promotional Packs); Playing the Game: Swiss games and more relatives of Rook; New Issues; SK329858 (reprinted with corrections); Nouvelle Étymologie du terme tarock/tarot; The return of Bridge to its homeland; Stubai Valley Droggn and Dobbm – two living fossils of the Austrian card game landscape, part II; Phillip Otto Runge’s first playing-cards
2. Editorial; Modiano Prize winner 1999; IPCS British Group meeting in Leicester; Notes and Queries (Political allegiances and Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Cards, French-suited 60-card decks, Cheating in South African casinos, Questions for the 3rd millennium, part 3, Tarot studies, 18th century advertisement for playing-cards, Bicycle playing-cards in Canada, Playing-card manufacture in Germany in the 1880s, Internet news); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Spielkarten, volumes 6 – 9, Michaela Klinkow:Spielkartenmakulatur, Schweizer Spielkarten 1. Die Anfänge im 15. Und 16. Jahrhundert); New Issues; Playing the Game: more 66-card tarot games; The manufacturing process of French-suited playing-caards befoe 1800; Taking the ‘waters of Ambert’ too literally a very early advertising deck; French suits and English names; A new card design from China; Stubai Valley Droggn and Dobbm – two living fossils of the Austrian card game landscape, part III
3. Editorial; Trevor Denning – Honorary Fellow; Fournier’s giant pack at Guildhall Library; 1999 IPCS Convention, Wroclaw, Poland; Letter to the Editor (T. Denning); Notes and Queries (Deck or Pack?, Woodpecker Press, Death of L.M.C. Fradera, Exhibition at Guildhall Library, London, La recoupe – new cards for old?, Belgian mystery pack – still a mystery, Cartorama catalogue XXV, ACCART meeting November, Wroclaw convention, Internet news); Book Reviews (Museo “Fournier” de Naipes de Alava Catalogo Tomo IV, Spielkarten aus der Sammlung Schultz, TAROCKE: Kulturgeschichte auf Kartenbildern. Band 6); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: Recent books; De La Rue’s first playing-cards; New Issues; I Trionfi di Marziano; La première mention de la Scopa; Golden Patience – A new pack of cards from Moehsnang
4. Editorial; Victor Ferro Torrelles on the award of the 1999 Modiano Prize; The early history of the IPCS; Letters to the Editor (P. Wood, R. Lancaster); Notes and Queries (Talon/BDK meeting Vienna, Links to IPCS members’ home pages, De La Rue’s first playing-cards – the ugly queens, First European museum website, Benetton Foundation awards for games research, Mystery pack); New Issues; Musical composition with playing-cards; Book Review (Spielkarten aus Goslar); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: exploring the boundaries; Bony, une fabrique de cartes à jouer et papiers peints à Lunéville (1836 – 1941); The ‘Maacher Kulturhuef’; Facsimile of a prisoner’s hand-made cards from the Grini concentration camp, Norway
5. Editorial; IPCS Millennium pack; Letters to the Editor (M. Dummett, J. McLeod); Les amis du Kulturhuef; Notes and Queries (Call for papers for 2000 convention, Advantages of card playing, Mystery deck fully revealed, Connaissez-vous ce jeu du ‘Happy Families’?, Holding hands – the fanning of a hand of cards, Ray Hartz – an obituary, Corrections to early history of the IPCS, Internet news); New Issues; Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (The catalogue of Happy Family Games, Part One and Part Two); Playing-cards and Medley prints; Extra Zwanglose Karte; The 2000 Convention – further information; Playing the Game: Swazi Casino; Two Portugal Insurrection packs
6. Preliminary Convention 2000 schedule; Notes and Queries (Carta Mundi’s millennium mystery, Hands up! Fanning of a hand of cards, French promotional Happy Families pack, Isle of Man Souvenir Cards, Dealt a precious hand, Internet news); New Issues; Playing the Game: Jass games – a survey; A 19th century Kurnol Dashavatara ganjifa pack; Publications Roundup; Rock Brothers and Payne – a Victorian stationer and playing-card maker; Playing-cards from Goslar; Grevjass, a modern Faroese pointer to the Jass of Czar Peter I;

Vol. XXIX (2000 – 2001)

1. BDK/Talon meeting 2000
   Playing the Game: the survival of Hombre; Klabberjaß im Alten Land bei Hamburg
   L’Inquisition, le Monopole et les Cartiers en Espagne au XVI^e Siècle
   Cracow playing-card manufacturers in modern Times
   A Phoenix Arises
2. The competitions for the back design of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards presentation packs
   An introduction to playing-cards from the Czech lands
   Dates of packs on Lenthall’s List
   Playing the Game: the other Napoleon
3. Report on Joint IPCS/52 Plus Joker Convention
   Playing the Game: Recent books
   Playing-cards of Malta
   The Printing of Playing-Cards
   The late Ming game of Ma Diao
4. John McLeod on receiving the Modiano prize
   Playing the Game: Tarokk in Hungary
   A 19th Century Glossary of Playing-Card Terms
   Rocks in the Landscape (cards of Jean Vérame)
   A Response to the *tuman Problem
   Wolfgang Suma: a Personal Reminiscence
5. Playing the Game: All Fours and its Descendants
   Argentinian Playing-Cards: Part 1 Art and Politics
   Playing Cards on Book Plates
   William Warter’s “Proverbial Cards”
6. Playing the Game: CUAJO: a Chinese Game with Spanish Cards
   Bid Whist
   Portraits en Espagne avant 1800: Le Portrait de Valence
   The Origin of the first English Joker

Vol. 30 (2001 – 2002)

1. Playing the Game: Rules, Conventions and Customs
   Maimonides – A Trace of Playing-Cards in the 12th Century
   Maltese Dragon Cards
   Playing Cards of Canada
   Stewart Lawrence: An Appreciation
2. Playing the Game: Oochlee – A Game from Northern Syria
   Dilys Henrik Jones: An Appreciation
   German Flower Quartet games
   Hodges’ Artful Dodges
   Tarocchino Bolognese: Due Nuovi Manoscritti Scoperti: Parte 1
3. Argentinian Playing-Cards: Part 2 Gaucho and Other Cards
   Playing-Cards of the Chitrashala Press: Part 1
   Mamluk Problems
   19th Century Images of Chinese card Players
4. Playing The Game: Tarock in Romania
   Cards of the Chitrashala Press: Part 2
   Martin Le Franc et les Tarots Visconti
   Tarocchino Bolognese: Due Nuovi Manoscritti Scoperti: Parte 2
5. A Rare 1909 American Russian Political Pack
   An Early mention of Playing-Cards in Australia
   Portraits Standard en Turquie au XIXe Siècle
6. Playing the Game: Recent Books
   Computer Images of Playing-Cards
   Ernesto Flaiban: Playing Card Manufacturer of Buenos Aires
   Playing-Cards in Brazil
   Playing-Cards of the 1893 Chicago World Fair

Vol. 31 (2002 – 2003)

1. Playing the Game: Tulip Growers’ Pandoeren
   How Little Do We Know?
   De La Rue’s Stick Business in Surrey
   The Wheelers: A Family of Card makers and Card Forgers?
   Tûmân, or the 10,000 Cups of the Mamlûk Cards
2. Playing the Game: Indian Jass games
   Amends to Athanasius Kircher
   The Extended Dasavatara Packs of Orissa
   The ‘Yezi Pu’ (Manual of Leaves)
3.  Playing the Game: More Indian Jass Games
   Der Fürst und der Kartenspiel: Piquet-Regeln (um 1620)
   Heraclio Fournier: Note on the Manufacture of Playing-Cards
   The Map Cards of William Redmayne c.1676
4. Playing the Game: Which Whist
   Alf Cooke: Printer and Maker of Playing-Cards
   Lenthall vs Redmayne et al
   Les Cartes de Marseille au Mexique au Début du XVIIIe Siècle
   The Heraldic Crosses on the 2000 Worshipful Company’s Pack
5. Playing the Game: More Whist and comments on Tuppi
   Chinese Money Suited Cards
   L.P. Holmblad – Danish playing-Card Maker: The Tarok Packs
   Pan Zhiheng’s ‘Xu Yezi Pu’ Part 1
   Tuppi: Lapland’s National Game
6. Playing the Game: Card Games in Iran
   A Pack for the Prague 1908 Jubilee Exhibition
   Pan Zhiheng’s ‘Xu Yezi Pu’ (Sequel to a Manual of Leaves) Part 2
   Playing-cards of the Cuming Museum

Vol. 32 (2003 – 2004)

1. Playing the Game: Owl or Eagle? The Uhu in Austrian Tarock
   Modern techniques of scientific Analysis of Playing-Cards
   Playing-cards of Latvia
   Royalty on Danish Playing-cards
2. Playing the Game: Golf
   Cartomancy in Bologna
   First Steps of Bridge in the West: Collinson’s ‘Biritch’
   Playing-cards for the Afterlife
   Playing Cards of the Cuming Museum: The European Cards
3. Playing the Game: Tournament Report
   A Propaganda Deck for the Siege of Leningrad
   AGM AGMüller: 175 Years of Playing-Card Manufacture
   Three Chiki Games
4. Playing the Game: Partition Games
   Back to the Roots of a Modern Flower Deck
   Playing-Cards of Estonia
   Mahjong(g) before Mahjong(g): Part 1
   Where Do the Virtues Go
5. Playing the Game: Invention and Evolution
   A 19th Century Hand-painted French-Suited Pack from Oglewadi
   A New Playing-Card Factory in the Netherlands
   Des “cartes communément appelées taraux” 1ère Partie
   Mahjong(g) before Mahjong(g): Part 2
6. Playing the Game: Brelan in Belgium
   A 19th Century Czech Nationalistic pack by Emanuel Neumann
   Des “cartes communément appelées taraux” 2ème Partie
   On the Origin of Styles: Taxonomy of the English Pattern
   Playing-Cards and the Olympic Games
   The Tarot Myth

Vol. 33 (2004 – 2005)

1. Playing the Game: Tarocco Ticinese
   48-Card Packs in Italy
   Goodall’s Royal Masonic Playing Cards
   Entre tarot et jeux de cour: une carte à jouer italienne
   Marziano da Tortona’s Tractus de deificatione sexdecim heroum Part 1
   Stoppa
2. Playing the Game: The Benelux Games of Trumps
   An Enigmatic Betrothal on Lucas van Leyden’s Painting The Card Reader
   Henry Druitt Phillips
   Marziano da Tortona’s Tractus de deificatione sexdecim heroum Part 2
   Rummy Mahjong – Playing Cards on Tiles
   Taxes on Playing Cards in Argentina
   The Sicilian Trumps
3. The Sicilian Trumps
   Playing Cards of the Great exhibition in London, 1851
   American Indian Playing-Cards of French and English Derivation
   Maltese Playing Card makers 1684-1750
   Whist-Regeln in Kontinentaleuropa bis 1800
4. Playing the Game: Schnellen, Hucklebuck & Donut
   A Playing Card Discovery in Schongau (Bavaria)
   Augustus Wollaston Franks
   Brief Sketch of the History of Tarot Cards
   Kakkuri: The Last Yomi Game of Japan
   Lady Charlotte Schreiber: Card Collector Extraordinary
   The Holmblad Playing Card Patterns
   Worshipful Company of maker’s of Playing Cards 1887 Ladies Pack

Vol. 34 (2005-2006)

1.  The Talon/BDK Meeting 2005
   An Early 20th Century Pack of French Suited Cards by Narayan Ramachandra Kelkar
   Early Cardmakers in Scotland
   The Early Waite-Smith Tarot Editions
   A Severe Penalty for Forgery of the Ace of Spades
   A Survey of Russian Playing-Card Publications
   Carte da gioco del ‘700 nella Cappella Sistina
   The 1890 Worshipful Company Pack for the Summer Ladies Dinner
   Non-Standard De La Rue Packs for King Christian X of Denmark
   De La Rue & Co. London and Paris Decks
   Playing the Game: Kaiser, Joffre and the Lost Heir
2. IPCS Turnhout Convention report
   The ASESCOIN 2005 meeting
   Playing Cards and Tarots in Naples, 15th-18th Centuries
   A Czech National Revival Pack c. 1890 engraved by Karel Hoffman
   Gambling in Malta under the Order of St. John
   A Pack by Grimaud for the Liner France
   Playing the Game: Canasta Relatives – Games with Feet
3. In Memoriam Klaus Reisinger 1941 – 2006
   The 14th Century and the Introduction of Playing Cards into Europe
   Owen Jones (1809 – 1874): Architect, Decorative Artist & Designer of Playing Cards
   A Discovery of 16th Century Playing-Cards
   Early Documents on Playing Cards in Mantua; William Taunton and the Game of Zetema
   Playing the Game: Truc, Vitou and Aluette
   A Pack made by a Napoleonic Prisoner-of-War
4. Obituary: Lorna Collett
   A Czech Hussite Pack
   C. L. Wüst and the Theilungs-Recess
   Die “quarten” aus dem Hennegau
   Hallazgos de barajas antiguas españolas
   John Kirk – An 18th Century Card Maker
   Mahjong(g), before and after Mahjong(g)
   When We Were Very Young
   Playing the Game: Literature and Joffre cards

Vol. 35 (2006 – 2007)

1. Playing the Game: Truf
   Collecting Australian Playing Cards
   The Emergence of the Tulip on Playing and Oracle Cards
   Mahjong(g) before and after Mahjong(g): Part 2
   I Tarocchi della Collezione Rothschild al Louvre: Nuove Proposte di Lettura
   Komi and Nakash – Two gambling games of Orissa
2. Playing the Game: Scharwenzel
   From Schongau to St Petersburg
   Very Old Wrappers
   Playing cards and Tax Stamps form Czechoslovakia
   Did Card Makers Always Make Their Own Cards
3. Playing the Game: Twenty Two
   Embarrassing Tiles: Mahjong and the Taipings
   Early Cards of Bordeaux
   Some Remarks on the Relationship between Church and Card Games
   Tarabish
4. Playing the Game: Chinese games, Big Three and Fight the Landlord
   Some Remarks on the Relationship between Church and Card Games Part 2
   The Hunting pack made by Mihály Zichy
   Rabouge – History, Rules, Cards
   The Origins of Euchre
   Le Prince à la Table de Jeu

Vol. 36 (2007-2008)

1. Playing-card Backs
   The Stralsund Single-faced Pattern
   Early Italian Lists of Tarot Trumps
   Giovanni del Ponte and the dating of the Rothschild cards in the Louvre: some further considerations
   Seven Bridge
   Playing the Game: Compendium Games
2. Report from Ravenna
   Recognizing a Nineteenth-Century Apache Playing Card Artist: The Tonto Naipero
   Bhavnagar State Historical Cards: New Finds
   Du piquet au whist: les marqueurs de jeu de cartes entre France et Grande-Bretagne
   Cards and Card-Playing in Muscovite Russia
   Playing the Game: Italian Games and Recent Books
3. Latvian wartime playing-cards
   French suited tarot decks in Denmark and the Jacob Holmblad Animal tarot
   A Pair of Transformation Packs
   Playing Cards in Rome – 15th- 17th Centuries
   Playing the Game: Five-player Dasavatartas from West Bengal
4. Undescribed Standard Patterns
   Crouds in the Streets, Meetings at the Tables
   Black Peter – a Brigand?
   Playing-cards by Academician Sharleman
   A Sequel to Max Ruh’s “Playing-Card Backs”
   Array Rummy Game
   Playing the Game: Card games with layouts

Vol. 37 (2008-2009)

1. Arundhati and Saptarishis (Seven Sages)
   Flowers and Kings: A Hypothesis of their Function in Early Ma Que
   Playing Cards: Uses and Abuses
   Storing and Cataloguing a Small Playing Card Collection
   Page One
   Marked Playing Cards
   Playing the Game: Modern Skruuvi
2. Entre farsa et barzelletta: jeux de cartes italiens autour 1500
   Quartet Games and their History
   The Devil and the Two of Hearts
   Playing the Game: Troggu in Visperterminen
3. Back to Card Backs: Rosart’s Tarotées
   Gabriel Shire Tregear and “The March of Intellect” Card Game
   The Fennell series of Irish Heroic & Historic Playing Cards
   Printing Methods used in the Manufacture of Playing-cards
   Was there a “Portrait de Nice”?
   Maldivian card games: rules, language and history
   Playing the Game: Dai Fugô
4. Aspects of Self Playing-Cards
   Joker Collecting and Manufacturers
   Dasamahavidyas – the Ten Mahavidyas
   Three Centuries of Playing-cards in the Netherlands 1600 – 1900
   Roomse Constitutie Kaarten – fallible for losers, infallible for winners.
   Playing the Game: Tarock News

Vol. 38 (2009-2010)

1. Members Only Area of Web Site
   New Issues on the Web
   Le portrait de Pampelune
   Miniature Cards from the 19th Century
   From the Symbolism of Wings to the Symbolism of Tarot Cards
   Taxes on Playing-Cards in the Republic of San Marino
   Playing the Game: Indian games – double tricks and collecting tens
2. Obituary: Trevor Denning
   October in Toronto
   Playing the Game: Iberian Triumphs Worldwide
   The magion Experience in Italy, A mahjong District in (Emilia) Romagna
   The Proto-historiography of Playing Cards:
   Early Hypotheses and Beliefs About the Origins of Cards and Card Games in Europe
   Cartographic and Map Playing Cards 1590-1798
3. In Memoriam Bob Haleber
   Dutch Scenic Aces
   Domino Cards
   Classifying Non-standard Playing Cards
   A Century with the Waite-Smith Tarot (and all the others …)
4. Dawson’s Game: Blackjack and the Klondike
   Port Books
   Collecting Playing-cards in China
   Chamundeshwari Chad
   Two fifteenth-century Italian cards
   Playing the Game: Minchiate

Vol. 39 (2010-2011)

1. Playing the Game: Origin of Königrufen
   Portugal Playing Card Tax – Imposto do cartas de jogar
   El Juego de naypes of Fernando de la Torre – A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Card Game
2. Report from the Convencaò de Lisboa
   When (and how) did Tarot reach Germany
   Playing-card Taxes in Uruguay
   The story behind a simple receipt
   La marque dans la famille des jeux hollandais de bel-bruyten
   Court figures in pre-standardized France
3. Playing the Game: Race Games with Playing-Cards
   Twelve-suited 144 Cards Gul aur Bulbul Ganjifa,
   Expanded Form of 96 cards Moghul Ganjifa from Banganapalle
   Desert Island Games
   A transition, a problem and more on Llewellyn
   Tokens for Whist, Part I: Hoyle’s Method of Scoring and other Whist Counters
4. Playing the Game: The Influence of Magic
   Tokens for Whist Part II: From Simple to Quadruple
   Winning Hearts and Minds: The Theory Behind the Playing-Card Backs Designed by Owen Jones
   A Note on the History of Cuccù
   The Soldier´s Prayerbook gave rise to a press-law suit in 1779

Vol. 40 (2011-2012)

1. Playing the Game: Marimba… without mallets
   From ‘britch’ to ‘bridge’: early French accounts of the 1880’s and 1890’s
   Two trompe-l’oeils with playing-cards
   Tiles
   Russian Playing Card History – From the Beginnings to 1917
2. Report from the Convention in Malmö
   Playing the Game: Playing cards and Chess
   Playing Cards in the Danish Church
   World War I and card playing as shown on forces’ postcards
   The Ungers: A 19th century playing-card making family in Győr, Hungary
3. Obituary Prof. Sir Michael Dummett
   Playing the Game: Tarocchi with Table Talk – The 62-card Game in Piedicavallo
   The IPCS – Forty Years Ago
   Felix Solesio at Home
   Fake English cards and a note on Ludlow’s Knights aces
   Playing Card Containers
   I primi giochi di carte nella repubblica fiorentina
4. Playing the Game: Polish Taroki
   On types, patterns and standards
   A return visit to the Cuming Museum
   Fancy Conjuring Playing Cards: A New Collecting Fashion?
   Imprimait-on des cartes à jouer à Ferrare en 1436 ?

Vol. 41 (2012-2013)

1. A Journey to the German Colonies
   Criterial characteristics and the development of American court cards from 1820-60
   From Cards to Tiles: The Origin of Mahjong(g)’s Earliest Suit Names
2. Report from the 2012 Convention
   Playing the Game: Chinese Patience
   In Search of Tarot Sources – After Fifteen Years
   Un “Padovano” cartaro accusato di frode
   A Response to Walter Haas
   The Playing Card in Perpignan, from the 14th to the 19th Century
   Restoration of playing cards
3. Playing the Game: From Begging to Pitching
   Cards and Cards: Early References to Playing Cards in England
   Milanese playing card drawings in the British Museum
   More English influences on major US court designs
   Royal Finery on Playing Cards
   Beer Steins
4. Playing the Game: Austrian Calling Games
   À mi-chemin entre Venise et Florence : le Chariot ferrarais du Musée français de la carte à jouer
   Playing cards at Strangers’ Hall, Norwich
   A kind of answer to Ken Lodge
   The Rwandan appropriation of a Portuguese game: amaturufu and ibigurasha

Vol. 42 (2013-2014)

1. Obituary Prof. Dr. Detlef Hoffmann
   Playing the Game: Minimal Card Games: Kop and Baśka
   1691 Scottish Peers’ Heraldic Playing Cards
   The Tarot de Marseille – Facts and Fallacies. Part I
   Walter Scharff – the Fate of an Unorthodox Maker of Playing Cards
2. Playing the Game: Getaway: the Punjabi Inflation Game
   Illustrated backs of cards made in Milan
   Realism in European cards
   The Tarot de Marseille – Facts and Fallacies. Part II
   Oppenheimer & Sulzbacher, Vereinigte Kunstanstalten Senkeisen (vSk) and Carl Schaller
3. Obituaries: George Beal and Max Ruh
   Playing the Game: Reversed Card Fireworks
   Imported cards in 19th century Britain
   I tarocchi nel Regno Sabaudo dal 1815 all’Unità d’Italia (1)
   Identifying a Maker Using Stencil Patterns
4. Playing the Game: Varieties of Cucumber
   Hudson Industries – an Australian playing card maker
   The Stag Rider from the So-called “Tarot of Alessandro Sforza” at the Museo Civico di Castello Ursino of Catania
   I tarocchi nel Regno Sabaudo dal 1815 all’Unità d’Italia (2)

Vol. 43 (2014-2015)

1. Playing the Game: Card Games on Poster Stamps
   News from Austria’s Past (1): Playing-card Makers in Agram
   A fascinating find at Haddon Hall
   Paying by card before plastic was invented
   An analysis of wood-block characteristics
2. Obituary Eddie Cass
   The Berlin Convention 2014
   A sniff of salt for a quarter of a playing card
   Comments to the article “Playing the Game: Card games on poster stamps”
   Whitaker, Steer, Willis & Perry: a tale of suit signs and number cards
   Poker cards – Deviations from the Standard
3. Playing the Game: Climbing and Throwing Eggs
   Playing cards with added value
   Un marqueur de tressette ? (ou “La Constance l’emporte”…)
   News from Austria’s Past (2): Aloys Hofmann, a Viennese cardmaker
   Nineteenth Century Duplicate Whist Playing Card Holders
4. Playing the Game: Gnav in Germany
   Vintage Movie Star Playing Cards from Brazil
   Dating and its associated problems
   Four Russian Playing-card Packs
   Otto Spalinger – an artist and his playing-cards
   Hoyle abroad, II: Hoyle in French
   News from Austria’s Past (3): Constantin Kaulitzy, a cardmaker in Neusatz

Vol. 44 (2015-2016)

1. A presentation of the Gallica database (the BnF’s digital library) and its playing-card contents
   From Italy to France and back again
   Origin of Tarots – the Avignon Hypothesis
   The Fall and Rise of Thomas Woolley & the Decline and Fall of Creswick
   News from Austria’s Past (4): The playing-card maker Carl Hofer (Hoffer)
   1499-1506: Firenze – Nuove informazioni sulle carte fiorentine
2. The 2015 IPCS Convention in Turnhout
   Early French court figures and the regional portraits
   Iraqi Most Wanted
   The Tarock of the Skat inventors, Part 1: Grosstarock Redefined
3. Obituary Marie-Claude Atger-Ravel
   1377: Firenze – Condanne ai giocatori di naibi
   The Tarock of the Skat inventors, Part 2: The Weimar Classics and a Ludemic View on Tarock, Hombre, and Skat
   Shipwreck in Alderney, a Pack with a Story
   News from Austria’s Past (5): Makers of Playing-Cards in Cheb/Eger (Bohemia). Part 1: 16th – 17th centuries
   ‘Trionfi alla franciosa finiti e non finiti’ – Le tarot en France avant 1500
   Playing-card taxes in New Zealand
4. Obituaries Karl Gerich, Tom Dawson
   Playing the Game: ǂXànúsìas played by the Ju|’hoansi in |Xae|xae, Botswana
   New Insights into the So-called Alessandro Sforza Deck
   A Lisbon Find
   News from Austria’s Past (6): A strange Austrian Tarot
   Early French court figures and the regional portraits (continued)

Vol. 45 (2016-2017)

1. Obituaries: Alberto Milano, Ivo de Cock, Thomas Zeuner
   Playing the Game: Perlaggen – the first UNESCO recognised card game
   ‘Arts on Cards’ – Part One: Portraits
   The pros and cons of eBay
   News from Austria’s Past (7): Makers of Playing-Cards in Cheb/Eger (Bohemia) – Part 2: 18th – 19th centuries
2. Obituaries: Werner Seyffertitz, Franz Braun, Helmut Feindura
   Playing the Game: Trip to Austria – Tarock, Yaks and Ladinisch
   Joseph Hunt revisited and the development of the wood-block designs
   Why do we have labels and what do they tell us? The case of Dondorf’s Birma-Karte
   Double Bohemian Cards – a nearly unknown standard
   ‘Arts on Cards’ – Part Two: Landscapes
3. Obituaries (K. Frank Jensen, Adrienne Gurr)
   Playing the Game: Fishing in 18th-century Yorkshire
   Early Dragons
   News from Austria’s Past (8): The Playing Card Factory C. Titze & Schinkay in Vienna
   Trappola was invented by Trapolin
   ‘Arts on Cards’ – Part Three: Animals (I)
   Hidden treasures in the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris
4. Playing-cards found in a historic clock at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich The ESSO – DKW Encounter
   Gibbon’ Swiss Playing Cards
   An intriguing find
   ‘Arts on Cards’ – Part Four: Animals (II)
   The Tarock of the Skat Inventors, Part III. Whither Tarock Hombre? The Berliner Spielalmanach series and a Copyright Case in Berlin, early 19th Century

Vol. 46 (2017-2018)

1. The Future of the IPCS
   Obituaries Dudley Ollis, Major ‘Donald’ Welsh
   An undiscovered Kashmiri ganjifa at Knebworth House
   News from Austria’s Past (9): The strange afterlife of the Viennese playing card maker Leopold Keim
2. The Rise and Demise of the Pierre Steinmann Card-Factory in Copenhagen, 1798-1824
   The Orfeo Conundrum
   An Uncommon Má Jiàng Pattern from Fujian?
   An Atthalin Transformation pack enhanced with hand-written verse
   Electrotypes
3. Results of the IPCS Members Survey
   The Henry Hart puzzle
   Tarots et autres cartes du XVe siècle exposés en 1880 à Turin
   A new home for the former United States Playing Card Company collection
   Show Me Your Card and Let Me Know Who You Are
   News from Austria’s Past (10): Online Catalogues of two Viennese Museum Collections
4. Dinner Invitations on Playing-Cards
   1810-11: Playing Cards in Lucca
   Hidden pleasures – Game playing in WW2 by people in hiding

Vol. 47 (2018-2019)

1. Tribute to Maurice Collett
   Un graveur de cartes liégeois
   Playing-cards in the Municipal Archives of Werl
   Cards with a sad story, part two.
   Games for WW2 soldiers and PoWs
2. Obituary Maurice Collett
   Playing the Game: Dreierles
   Do Old Playing Cards Belong in Museums?
   News from Austria’s Past (11): Paul Löwe and Jacob Frenkel,
   Producers of opaque playing cards in Vienna
   A playing-card pack c.1520 from Reutlingen
   Il Capitolo delle Minchate
3. Obituary Silvio Berardi
   Playing the Game: Schafkopf in the Palatinate
   Cards with a sad story, part 3: Games to be killed for
   A visit to the Playing Card Museum at St. Petersburg
   Turnhout: Playing Card Printing from the Industrial Revolution
   An early secondary use for playing cards from Rouen
   Salvotti-Cassini – Fabbricanti di Carte da Gioco
   Commenti su Regole delle Minchiatta,
4. Obituary Günther Senst
   TDC Inc.: A 20th Century American Playing Card Maker
   News from Austria’s Past (11): The Debardeur Tarot – a hitherto unknown 19th century Viennese Tarock?
   Atlante tascabile e minchiate del 1780

Vol. 48 (2019-2020)

1. Obituary Bill Gosling
   Classification of Numeral Card Designs in French-suited packs
   Le Carte da Gioco a Lucca
2. Ritter a spol. Ferd. Piatnik & Sns, Ritter a spol.
   RCI: A 20^th Century Playing-Card Maker of Minneapolis 1969-1985
   Bruus: The Karnöffel of Schleswig Part 1
   “I learned the most from I.P.C.S. members”
   Filip Cremers leaves the National Museum of the Playing Card in Turnhout, Belgium
3. Islamic Playing Card Fragments in the Keir Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art
   Minchiate: le Regole Generali di Roma e Macerata
   Strohmann-Tapp: A New Game with Old Roots
   Il piu’ antico gioco del “Cu Cu”
4. Obituaries John Grafton Thorpe and Geraldine Goodwin
   Bruus: the Karnöffel of Schleswig – Part 2. From Brausbart to Bruus
   Boaz’ unmasked
   A tale of two halves with a cautionary note

Vol. 49 (2020-2021)

1. Obituary Rolf-Dieter Ernestus
   Minchiate: le Regole Generali di Firenze
   Further aspects in dating the Alessandro-Sforza-Tarocchi
   Fipsen: One Name, Two Games
   Goodall in Europe and a Viassone sample book
2. Obituary Giulianno Crippa
   Between Germany and France: Cardmakers in Landau and Kehl
   Double-ending in English cards
   Libro del 1747 sulle minchiate, e altri giochi
   Reconstructing the Early Italian Game of Tarot
3. Obituaries Ernst-Henri Balan, Rainald Schaider
   La legislazione delle carte da gioco a Milano nel periodo Napoleonico e durante il Regno Lombardo Veneto
   Greenland and The Faroe Islands
4. Obituaries Stuart R. Kaplan
   Norwegian Tarokk
   Portraits on the backs of playing-cards
   Knüffeln – the Karnöffel of Frisia
   The WCMPC installation cards 2020-21

Vol. 50 (2020-2021)

1. The Wüst-Goodall dilemma
   Minchate Toscane part 1
   Hans Hauck’s early life
2. Obituaries Rex Pitts, Willem Hogenes, Christa Senst
   Minchiate Toscane part 2
   Silesian Karnöffel unveiled
3. The origins of playing cards in Catalonia
   German Tarok
4. Obituaries Han Janssen, Michael H. Goodall
   Gambling cards in Nepal
   On the discovery of playing cards in the Freistadt Bürgerspital’s account book 1559-1562
   The Danish Dandy

Vol. 51 (2021-2022)

1. Some remarks on the discovery of Trappola cards in the Freistadt account book
   German Tarok – part 2: Bavarian Tarock
   Osservazioni sulla definizione di “Piacentine”
2. The world of Filippo Maria Visconti
   Egyptian fortune telling cards
   German Tarok – part 3: Württemberg Tapp
   Roi Dame Val:
3. Straw-work playing card boxes and playing cards
   What’s the deal?
   Playing the game backwards
4. German children’s world c.1935
   Playing the game forwards